In the new Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, there is a lot of love for detail. A Reddit user noticed this when he confronted the game characters with ‘naked facts’ and received individual reactions. He shared his discovery with the community.
Wait, what is he doing? In Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Nintendo has given players a lot of freedom. But as gamers are, they inevitably create a lot of mischief. For example, the building feature led to numerous phallic creations.
A player who goes by the name ‘acidhouses’ on Reddit is meanwhile pursuing his own mission: He puts his Link into a very skimpy outfit and documents how the NPCs he encounters react to the sight.
On Reddit, he shares the results in a four-part series titled ‘Things people say when Link is naked’. It shows that some inhabitants of Hyrule have developed moral values.
Not that he gets cold!
What do the characters say? The reactions to the sight of Link’s half-naked body vary quite a bit: While some dryly comment on the unusual clothing state (‘Except for the underwear, huh?’), others urge the hero to please put on some clothes.
Acidhouses’ action naturally requires one to get past the tutorial, which not everyone manages in the new Zelda game.
One of the galleries, each containing about 20 screenshots, we have embedded here for you. Even though nothing explicit is shown, this is where a cautious ‘nsfw’ applies – because no one wants to have to explain that to their boss.
How does someone come up with such an idea? For acidhouses, it was probably the power of habit. In an interview with the US site GameRant, the Reddit user explained that he usually plays characters without armor in other games, such as the Souls series or WoW.
In Tears of the Kingdom, he did it just the same and encountered the reactions of Hyrule’s inhabitants. He also revealed that the series was originally only planned as a trilogy, but eager commentators pointed out so many other reactions that he now has material for at least a fifth part.
The funny dialogues show how much effort the developers have put into giving the NPCs their own personalities in the game. This is particularly interesting because a significant portion of players will likely never see all the individual reactions.
David Jaffe, the creator of God of War, is unfazed by this, as he publicly criticizes the graphics of the game:
“I had it fixed by AI!” – The creator of God of War makes fun of the graphics of the new Zelda
